linux-msdos-digest Tuesday, 26 January 1999 Volume 01 : Number 132
In this issue:
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From: Matt Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 07:22:53 -0500
Subject: more than one EMS frame?
I have an old program which is used at work on dos machines. it is ancient and
text-based and I would love to get it working under dosemu so I could run it
multiple times on the same box. (and not waste a PII running dog).
the program refuses to run and prints the error message
" EMS driver does not map enough frames, exiting "
If I had the EMS documentation, I would be able to tell wether this means that
it needs two discinct frames, or wether the 4K? frame (at 0x0e000 in my case)
is too small and needs to be increased. the former suggests some sort of
protocol with which the running program can tell which frame to swap out
seperately. the latter (which I hope is the case ) tells me that all I need to
do is go through the code and increase the frame size. I hope someone else has
seen this before.
I have a couple of days to work on this and am "willing and able" to code if I
can help but I would need EMS documentation. ( or a very good FAQ :)
I am running linux 2.0.36, libc5. something, and dosemu 0.98.5
I have ems.sys loaded and ems turned on in the configuration.
EMS is working for everything else, but this program is stubborn.
-Matt
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From: Alistair MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 22:24:44 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: hdimage accessible via loopfs?
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On 19-Jan-99 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Eric,
>
> You wrote:
> >
> > Don't ever mount a partition or hdimage under linux while at the same time
> > using
> > it with dosemu. For the partition case we have some checks to warn about
> > this.
> >
> I'm using DOSEmu for two-and-a-half year now and my DOS-partition is _ALWAYS_
> mounted. I have had no problems with that so far...
> However, I don't access the partition from within Linux while running DOSEmu.
> Is that the reason for my 'no problems'?
A semantic issue possibly - how do you access the partition under DOSEMU ?
Do use LREDIR (or EMUFS) ? This is safe as all the access goes via the
linux (V)FS layer. The problem is when RAW access is enabled under DOSEMU
& the partition is mounted under Linux. In this case neither of the
systems is aware of what the other is doing, and so corruption can occur.
Alistair
(Whilst this might have sprung out of the loopfs discussion, there is
nothing in that email to say which method was being used)
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From: Hans Lermen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:28:36 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: more than one EMS frame?
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Matt Chapman wrote:
> If I had the EMS documentation, I would be able to tell wether this means that
> it needs two discinct frames, or wether the 4K? frame (at 0x0e000 in my case)
AFAIK we only map 16K pages.
> is too small and needs to be increased. the former suggests some sort of
DOSEMU can only handle one frame. Also mapping at diskrete selectors
is not supported.
> I have a couple of days to work on this and am "willing and able" to code
> if I can help but I would need EMS documentation. ( or a very good FAQ :)
If you want to enhance the DOSEMU ems support, go ahead ;-)
But be warned, this is a tricky beast and if you do it wrongly you may
break a lot of other stuff.
For divers specs have a look at
ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/msdos/programming/specs
Hans
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From: Hector Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:06:01 -0400 (VET)
Subject: problem switching to another console
Hi,
I got a problem switching form dosemu to another virtual console
or to X. being in dosemu in text mode if I switch from X or a
virtual console back to dosemu the screen is a mess, as though the
monitor were unable to get right the horizontal sync. I wonder if this
is a known bug or just a misconfiguration in my dosemu.conf
here the video section of my dosemu.conf:
$_video = "vga" # one of: plainvga, vga, ega, mda, mga, cga
$_console = (1) # use 'console' video
$_graphics = (1) # use the cards BIOS to set graphics
$_videoportaccess = (0) # allow videoportaccess when 'graphics' enabled
$_vbios_seg = (0xc000) # set the address of your VBIOS (e.g. 0xe000)
$_vbios_size = (0x10000)# set the size of your BIOS (e.g. 0x8000)
$_vmemsize = (1024) # size of regen buffer
$_chipset = "cirrus" # one of: plainvga, trident, et4000, diamond,avance
# cirrus, matrox, wdvga, paradise
$_dualmon = (0) # if you have one vga _plus_ one hgc (2 monitors)
BTW, I use doemu 0.98.1 and my video card is a cirrus logic with chipset
GD5434
any would be greatly apreciated.
Prof. Hector Gutierrez
Escuela de Quimica
Universidad Central de Venezuela
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jurek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:58:20 -0500
Subject: Problem.
Hello!
I use Slackware 3.6
When I try to run dosemu i get this error.
CPU speed set to 119 MHz
Running on CPU=586, FPU=1
ERROR: unexpected CPU exception 0x06 errorcode: 0x00000000 while in vm86
(DOS)
[00000733] Program=sigsegv.c, Line=250
[00000733] EIP: 0070:000015a9 ESP: 0000:00000710 VFLAGS(b): 00000
00000010 01000110
EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000070 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000 VFLAGS(h):
00000246
ESI: 00000018 EDI: 0000f8eb EBP: 0000ea00 DS: 0070 ES: 0070 FS: 0000 GS:
0000
[00000733] FLAGS: PF ZF IF RF VM VIF IOPL: 0
[00000733] STACK: 93 08 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 -> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00
[00000733] OPS : 79 20 63 6f 64 65 20 6f 72 20 -> 63 6f 64 65 20 70 61
67 65 0d
636f64 0070:15a9 arpl [bx+64],bp
[00000733]
Jurek.
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From: Alan Tam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 14:40:30 +1200
Subject: Re: Compiling Dosemu-0.98.4.tgz
Hi Reinhard,
Thanks for your information on bison. I've downloaded
bison-1.25.tar.gz and installed it. After I do the ./default-configure as
root in the dosemu-0.98.4 directory
it goes fine.
Then I type make to compile, it ends to lex command not find (bison
works fine as a replacement of yacc).
Please help ! Where can I find lex ?
Thanks
Alan
Reinhard Karcher wrote:
> Alan Tam wrote:
> >
> > After I ' tar -xzf dosemu-0.98.4.tgz ' as root in /, a
> > directory /dosemu-0.98.4
> > is created; and changed to that directory and started to compile by
> > issuing make.
> > After lots of message running across the screen finally it comes to an
> > error "command yacc not found"
> >
>
> Hi Alan,
> install bison (the gnu equivalent for yacc)
>
> Reinhard
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From: Nathan Reeves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 99 20:22:00 PST
Subject: Lredir problems... HELP
I seem to be having great diffuculties with the lredir program, which I
am trying to use to redirect drives to directories on my Linux system.
I'm running DOSEmu 0.98.5 with MSDOS 6.22 on a RH 5.2 system. The
emulator works great, and using emufs I get a mount to one of my mnt
(/mnt/netware) directories which is the mount point for my netware
server. The only problem is that I want to redirect my T drive to a sub
directory below /mnt/netware. Whenever I try using lredir I get one of
the following error messages:
Error 1 redirecting drive t: to linux/fs/mnt/netware/data
Error f redirecting drive t: to linux/fs/mnt/netware/data
Error 55 redirecting drive t: to linux/fs/mnt/netware/data
The data directory in this case has permissions 755, root, root.
Sometimes I can get it to mount, but only if I use E: (D: is set using
emufs to mount /mnt/netware)
Anyone have any brilliant ideas?
Many thanks
Nathan Reeves
Perth, Western Australia
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From: Reinhard Karcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 08:15:02 +0100
Subject: Re: Compiling Dosemu-0.98.4.tgz
Alan Tam wrote:
> Then I type make to compile, it ends to lex command not find (bison
> works fine as a replacement of yacc).
>
> Please help ! Where can I find lex ?
>
Hi Alan,
try flex
Reinhard
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From: Reinhard Karcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:28:26 +0100
Subject: Re: Lredir problems... HELP
Nathan Reeves wrote:
>
> I seem to be having great diffuculties with the lredir program, which I
> am trying to use to redirect drives to directories on my Linux system.
>
> I'm running DOSEmu 0.98.5 with MSDOS 6.22 on a RH 5.2 system. The
> emulator works great, and using emufs I get a mount to one of my mnt
> (/mnt/netware) directories which is the mount point for my netware
> server. The only problem is that I want to redirect my T drive to a sub
> directory below /mnt/netware. Whenever I try using lredir I get one of
> the following error messages:
>
> Error 1 redirecting drive t: to linux/fs/mnt/netware/data
> Error f redirecting drive t: to linux/fs/mnt/netware/data
> Error 55 redirecting drive t: to linux/fs/mnt/netware/data
Hi Nathan,
set lastdrive=z in your config.sys. I got Error f, when I tested with
lastdrive=H.
Reinhard
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From: Reinhard Karcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 08:10:46 +0100
Subject: Re: problem switching to another console
Hector Gutierrez wrote:
> Hi,
> I got a problem switching form dosemu to another virtual console
> or to X. being in dosemu in text mode if I switch from X or a
> virtual console back to dosemu the screen is a mess, as though the
> monitor were unable to get right the horizontal sync. I wonder if this
> is a known bug or just a misconfiguration in my dosemu.conf
>
> here the video section of my dosemu.conf:
>
> $_video = "vga" # one of: plainvga, vga, ega, mda, mga, cga
> $_console = (1) # use 'console' video
> $_graphics = (1) # use the cards BIOS to set graphics
> $_videoportaccess = (0) # allow videoportaccess when 'graphics' enabled
> $_vbios_seg = (0xc000) # set the address of your VBIOS (e.g. 0xe000)
> $_vbios_size = (0x10000)# set the size of your BIOS (e.g. 0x8000)
> $_vmemsize = (1024) # size of regen buffer
> $_chipset = "cirrus" # one of: plainvga, trident, et4000, diamond,avance
> # cirrus, matrox, wdvga, paradise
> $_dualmon = (0) # if you have one vga _plus_ one hgc (2 monitors)
>
Hi,
1. are you shure, you are using a videocard with a cirrus chipset?
2. try $_videoportaccess = (1)
Reinhard
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From: Hans Lermen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:46:48 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: problem switching to another console
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Hector Gutierrez wrote:
> Hi,
> I got a problem switching form dosemu to another virtual console
> or to X. being in dosemu in text mode if I switch from X or a
> virtual console back to dosemu the screen is a mess, as though the
> monitor were unable to get right the horizontal sync.
> BTW, I use doemu 0.98.1 and my video card is a cirrus logic with chipset
> GD5434
we are at 0.98.5, give it a try.
Hans
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From: Lucas Merckelbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:10:02 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: Lredir problems... HELP
[...]
> The data directory in this case has permissions 755, root, root.
> Sometimes I can get it to mount, but only if I use E: (D: is set using
> emufs to mount /mnt/netware)
>
>
> Anyone have any brilliant ideas?
Perhaps not a brilliant idea, but it looks like you have a statement in
your config.sys (or config.emu) like "lastdrive=E" or something like that.
You might try to change it to "lastdrive=Z".
>
> Many thanks
>
> Nathan Reeves
> Perth, Western Australia
>
lucas
c-x c-s
c-x c-c
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From: Hans Lermen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:29:31 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: Lredir problems... HELP
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Nathan Reeves wrote:
> server. The only problem is that I want to redirect my T drive to a sub
> directory below /mnt/netware. Whenever I try using lredir I get one of
> the following error messages:
> [...]
> The data directory in this case has permissions 755, root, root.
> Sometimes I can get it to mount, but only if I use E: (D: is set using
> emufs to mount /mnt/netware)
You need atleast a 'lastdrive=T' in your config.sys, do you have that?
Note: The data structures to store the drive assigments are part of DOS,
so they must _exist_ (and be large enough) within _DOS_.
Hans
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From: Hans Lermen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:37:17 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: Compiling Dosemu-0.98.4.tgz
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Alan Tam wrote:
> Then I type make to compile, it ends to lex command not find (bison
> works fine as a replacement of yacc).
>
> Please help ! Where can I find lex ?
yacc == bison
lex == flex
Hans
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From: Hans Lermen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:16:16 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: Problem.
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Jurek wrote:
> ERROR: unexpected CPU exception 0x06 errorcode: 0x00000000 while in vm86
> (DOS)
> OPS : 79 20 63 6f 64 65 20 6f 72 20 -> 63 6f 64 65 20 70 61 67 65 0d
y c o d e o r c o d e p a g e
its a string where your cs:ip is pointing to while executing your DOS.
This means: your DOS or DOSapp went berserk. Your info doesn't help atall.
Hans
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From: Alberto Olindo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:48:46 +0100
Subject: Re: What about cgi's under dos - like mod_dosemu for Apache? :)
Alistair MacDonald wrote:
>
> Sorry - I have no idea. I suggest that you try the MAILING LIST
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Unless this DOS app was written to be run as a CGI I suspect it is
> definately NON-trivial.
well I HAVE managed to use a perl wrapper to call dosemu with a keybord
statement which fires up my application. Obbviously this must produce
the rusults on std out ...
With some little black magic I parse in perl the dosemu output (which by
the way is REALLY dirty (what about a --very_silent_nearly_shutup
feature? just dont print anything perhaps with the ability to trap
command.com stuff like the prompt ? the most annoying thing here is
command echo, prompt and the dosemu fire-up) and get CLEAN result ...
brilliant ;^)
Unfortunately docs aren't really complete (translation too much of a
newbie here to get the thing on my own...) on which VC dos dosemu end-up
when it is called this way (a perl CGI open) ? Can this be harmful ? Os
is it simply STDOUT ? If its not, it would be nice to have a way to tell
dosemu it is running in the background.
FinallyI was joking in respect to my small (and hopefuly solve) problem
when I talked about mod_dosemu for Apache, but perhaps it wouldn't be a
bad idea... should be relatively simple .
Enough. Only a last question.
I am worried about performance and syncronization issues as this cgi
manages insurance transactions and will probably be installed on various
hosting services (which means on overloaded servers and nearby lots of
other people...) Where can I find more info on what can be bad or how to
fix it for dosemu performance and I/O?
Thank you very much
Alberto Olindo
Assibit S.r.l.
> On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Alberto Olindo wrote:
>
> > Hi Alistair,
> >
> > I've been using dosemu really some time ago (0.54 or something like
> > that) and it was a REALLY nice surprise to see how much better this are,
> > when last month I faced the need to get this really old basic-written
> > application for dos running under Linux as a CGI.
> >
> > Reimplementing or porting is impossible as I don't have source and the
> > company who produces the software is not interested.
> >
> > So I'm trying to work the thing out in DOSemu :).
> >
> > Do you know if someone has already done this? As you might understand
> > I'm no *nix wizard at all and I didn't find anything like that in the
> > docs (why should anyone do such a strage thing in the first place,
> > anyway ;) Perhaps it's trivial ..
> >
> > thanks alot anyway
> >
> > Alberto Olindo
> >
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From: Dave Mielke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 07:04:24 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Lredir problems... HELP
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Nathan Reeves wrote:
>Error 1 redirecting drive t: to linux/fs/mnt/netware/data
>Error f redirecting drive t: to linux/fs/mnt/netware/data
>Error 55 redirecting drive t: to linux/fs/mnt/netware/data
Use a backslash, rather than a forward slash, between "linux" and "fs".
lredir t: linux\fs/mnt/netware/data
Also, as others have said, make sure that the LASTDRIVE directive in your
CONFIG.SYS file, specifies a high enough letter.
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Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me
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From: Hans Lermen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 15:38:13 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: What about cgi's under dos - like mod_dosemu for Apache? :)
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Alberto Olindo wrote:
> well I HAVE managed to use a perl wrapper to call dosemu with a keybord
> statement which fires up my application. Obbviously this must produce
> the rusults on std out ...
try
dos ... -I 'video {none}' | special_filter
were special_filter should be a programm that back converts DOSish output.
> I am worried about performance and syncronization issues as this cgi
> manages insurance transactions and will probably be installed on various
> hosting services (which means on overloaded servers and nearby lots of
> other people...) Where can I find more info on what can be bad or how to
> fix it for dosemu performance and I/O?
1. Read doc/README*
2. make sure to let dosemu run non-suid-root (else its a security risc)
3. fiddle with $_hogthreshold to take away CPU power from DOSEMU
Hans
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From: "Gerald J. Puhl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 14:32:56 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Dos Emu special board
Dear users:
I have an application in which the DOSEMU Linux utility would be a great
fit. But I am having a problem. We have some application from a machine
tool manufacturer which runs on MSDOS. For copyright purposes the OEM
also has a special board (ISA) that needs to be in the PC for the software
to work correctly. I have run this program in DOSEMU and it works however
it cannot detect the security board on the bus. It anyone can steer me in
the direction of what to look at it would be greatly apreciated. I have
looked the dosemu.conf, but, I'm not sure of what to alter in this file.
Thanx!
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Gerald J. Puhl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Systems Manager
J. P. Pattern Inc.
for more information about JP Pattern please visit our Web site at:
www.jppattern.com or www.execpc.com/~jppat
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From: Esa Tikka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 21:46:02 +0200 (EET)
Subject: Re: xdos crashing my console
> internals, have any suggestions how dosemu may influence the BIOS's display
> routines in hires VGA-graphics modes when using console graphics or am I
> completly wrong with the assumption that the cards BIOS is responsible for
> displaying characters in these modes?
I'd say the problem has been solved. Simply enough, get dosemu-0.99-6 and
all characters do print on screen in console mode.
Should have checked this earlier, sorry developers.
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Esa Tikka --- esa dot tikka at lut dot fi ---
LTKK/ti2 ---> .satan, oscillate my metallic sonataS <---
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 21:55:08 -0500
Subject: VDE on Dos EMU?
Can you tell me if DOS emulation on Linux
will run an assembly language programed - in memory functioning -
Dos Word processor like VDE by Eric Meyers ?
If you have the time and know without too much research
I would appreciate an answer to this - as it may determine
how I set up my computer.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kragen Sitaker)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 12:05:47 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: VDE on Dos EMU?
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can you tell me if DOS emulation on Linux
> will run an assembly language programed - in memory functioning -
> Dos Word processor like VDE by Eric Meyers ?
No reason you've mentioned so far why it wouldn't. Of course, if it
wants to put the machine in protected mode and use 386 instructions,
that's a different matter. :)
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kragen Sitaker <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/>
Computers are the tools of the devil. It is as simple as that. There is no
monotheism strong enough that it cannot be shaken by Unix or any Microsoft
product. The devil is real. He lives inside C programs. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:32:43 +0300 (MSK)
Subject: hdimage support
Hello,
I'm really enjoing your emulator -- a week ago I decided to set dosemu up
and now I can run some of my dos games, I have not done it for ages!
But I've got a trouble -- if using two or more hd images in one dos
session is impossible ust drop me a short note and I'll stop hacking
dosemu.conf.
Thanx for fun,
_____
Alexander Kotelnikov
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Hans Lermen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 14:06:08 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: Other keyboard problem
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Andrzej Pruski wrote:
> This is a piece of Readme - Section 14 - Setting Hogthreshold:
>
> > Notes: If your application is unkind enough to do waits using an int16h fcn 1h
>loop without calling the keyboard idle interrupt (int 28h), this
> > code is not going to help much. If someone runs into a program like this, let me
>([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) know and I'll rewrite something into
> > the int16 bios.
Sorry, this piece of doc is completely outdated:-(
Hans
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 12:03:49 -0600
Subject: DOSEMU question
Hi,
I am new to Linux (though familiar with Unix), and I recently bought RedHat
5.2 Linux and installed it on my laptop.
Currently Linux is the only OS on the laptop. It works,fine, though I have
not tested everything.
However, I did try the dos emulator (dos), and nothing happens. I mean, I
get a few initial messages, including where to send bugs reports, etc (with
your email address), and then it returns me to the Linux shell!
What's happening? Do I need to separately install MS-DOS or something on my
laptop? Should I try to reinstall dosemu with another downloaded version?
I would appreciate all help you can give.
Thanks,
Ramesh
(BTW, I got my doctoral degree at Rutgers in 1992!)
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Ramesh Subramanian
IBM Rochester, MN (Visiting from University of Alaska-Anchorage)
Phone: 507-253-4071 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Thore Flock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:06:50 +0100
Subject: #video and ATI xpert@play
Hello,
possibly you (anyone of you) are (is) able to help me, i hope, i asked
everywhere else, Newsgroups, IRC...
I've read the Manual, the HOWTO, the Webpages...
I'm searching for a #video-or a #ports-String for my ATI
xpert@play-Video Card.
With the given strings in the dosemu.conf-file the card wont work at
all..:(
No one does know it, but i hope there exists one. Isn't this video card
very popular? (at least often used?)
Could anyone of you give me the line. At least some hints??
Bye and thanks, Thore...
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Hamburg/Germany
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Sergeant)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 11:53:20 -0600
Subject: Re: Another (same) keyboard problem
Mario Moreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was thinking of using a nice console telnet for win (95/NT) that I've
> found, so the win95 machine doesn't event need to see the windows (telnet in
> fullscreen mode).
Could you tell us which telnet program you found? Where did
you get it, etc.? I'm always on the look out for good telnet
programs (clients) to use on W95.
-- Frank
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From: Alistair MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:20:02 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: DOSEMU question
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> However, I did try the dos emulator (dos), and nothing happens. I mean, I
> get a few initial messages, including where to send bugs reports, etc (with
> your email address), and then it returns me to the Linux shell!
> What's happening? Do I need to separately install MS-DOS or something on my
> laptop? Should I try to reinstall dosemu with another downloaded version?
There really isn't any useful information in this message!
To be able to give you any meaningful answers we need to know:
Which version of DOSEMU
Which version of DOS (I guess it is DOS/C)
Are there any error messages printed on STDERR
Are there any debug messages (Try using -o output )
Are there any debug messages if you turn on full debugging
(Try -D+a -o output)
Alistair
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From: Alan Tam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 12:15:12 +1200
Subject: Re: Compiling Dosemu-0.98.4.tgz
Hi Hans & Sebastian,
Thanks for your information.
My Linux is Debian 2.0.34 Hamm version. It comes with Dosemu-0.66.7.
I couldn't get dosemu to work. It starts well when I type dos -C or dos.
C is that small drive for all the commands come from dosemu and D is the file
system in Linux which include the real C drive when running under Win95. When
I change directory to C:\win95\command and type edit, the Ms Editor starts but
all
the functions in the pull down menu are not functioning and I can't close the
editor window either.
Is there any thing to do with my boot manager ?
I am running System commander as the boot manager in the first drive (C:
and the whole drive contents Ms stuff) and Linux in the second dirve.
Therefore I think a compilation of the dosemu might suit my needs
Thanks for your help.
Alan
Hans Lermen wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Alan Tam wrote:
>
> > Then I type make to compile, it ends to lex command not find (bison
> > works fine as a replacement of yacc).
> >
> > Please help ! Where can I find lex ?
>
> yacc == bison
> lex == flex
>
> Hans
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Dave Mielke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 04:10:39 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: DOSEMU question
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I am new to Linux (though familiar with Unix), and I recently bought RedHat
>5.2 Linux and installed it on my laptop.
[...]
>However, I did try the dos emulator (dos), and nothing happens. I mean, I
>get a few initial messages, including where to send bugs reports, etc (with
>your email address), and then it returns me to the Linux shell!
I have had the very same problem, and can tell you exactly what your problem
is. RedHat distributes /usr/bin/dos as suid root, and /etc/dosemu.users such
that it contains:
nobody nosuidroot guest
guest nosuidroot guest
# If you want to allow limited dosemu to all users, uncomment the line
# all nosuidroot restricted
"nosuidroot" means that a regular user will get exactly the symptoms you
describe if he is attempting to run a suid root copy of DOSEMU. You have four
choices: First, remove the "nosuidroot" directive. Second, always run DOSEMU as
root. Third, remove the suid bit from /usr/bin/dos. Fourth, copy /usr/bin/dos
to another location as non-suid.
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From: Alan Tam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:36:46 +1200
Subject: Re: Compiling Dosemu-0.98.4.tgz
Hi,
Thanks to Hans & Sebastian.
At last I get the Dosemu-0.98.4 compiled, but with a little trick.
After I downloaded / installed flex, done the ./default-configure. When come to
make, it still asks for lex instead of knowing that I've installed flex (the
default-configure program automatically replaces yacc with bison in the prior
stage).
Eventually, I come to a file named Makefile.conf where there is a line
export ......bison -y
export.......lex there I changed lex to flex, then do make again
Good ! All done. The dosemu-0.98.4 is sucessfully compiled. Thanks to all persons
who helped me
Thank you.
Alan
Sebastian Unger wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> Alan Tam wrote:
> >
> > Then I type make to compile, it ends to lex command not find (bison
> > works fine as a replacement of yacc).
> >
> > Please help ! Where can I find lex ?
> Go ahead and fetch flex (the GNU replacement of lex) from where you got
> bison.
>
> BTW. You should check your linux Distribution. Normally these are included.
> If you ever install a linux system again you should include bison, flex, gcc
> etc. All the compiler tools. On Linux you will need the tools to install most
> packages since they require compilation.
>
> Seb
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From: Reinhard Karcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:56:04 -0800
Subject: Re: Compiling Dosemu-0.98.4.tgz
Alan Tam wrote:
>
> After I downloaded / installed flex, done the ./default-configure. When come to
> make, it still asks for lex instead of knowing that I've installed flex (the
> default-configure program automatically replaces yacc with bison in the prior
> stage).
>
> Eventually, I come to a file named Makefile.conf where there is a line
> export ......bison -y
> export.......lex there I changed lex to flex, then do make again
>
Hi Allan,
the configure program caches the names of installed programs. There was
no flex, when
it run last and, using the cached values, the program did'nt realise the
appearence of
flex. Just do a "make pristine". That should solve your problem.
Reinhard
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From: Mario Moreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 12:46:41 -0000
Subject: RE: Another (same) keyboard problem
> Mario Moreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I was thinking of using a nice console telnet for win
> (95/NT) that I've
> > found, so the win95 machine doesn't event need to see the
> windows (telnet in
> > fullscreen mode).
>
> Could you tell us which telnet program you found? Where did
> you get it, etc.? I'm always on the look out for good telnet
> programs (clients) to use on W95.
Yes, sure. You can find it at: ftp://argeas.cs-net.gr/Telnet-Win32
It has one big advantage for me. As it is a console mode telnet, and can put
it fullscreen, to run dosemu, and this way the user doesn't even "sees" the
windows environment.
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DID/CET Portugal Telecom
+351 34 8913200
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From: "Jeffrey Hummel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:10:32 -0500
Subject: DOSEMU control+F10
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From: "Stefano Corti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:32:35 +0100
Subject: DOSEMU 0.98 system clock
Hello,
I recently tried to upgrade from dosemu 0.66.7 to 0.98.5, and everything
worked *but* the emulated DOS system clock.
I can see, through a DOS application or using the 'TIME' command, that
randomly (every 15' about) the system clock puts itself back.
Obviously the Linux system clock is correct, and the dosemu.conf file is the
same, excluding the different format.
Anyone experienced this behaviour? Is this a bug?
Any suggestion is appreciated.
Stefano Corti, IZ0BBZ (I'm a radio amateur)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 99 19:12:53 MEZ
Subject: Re: Dos Emu special board
Gerald J. Puhl wrote:
>also has a special board (ISA) that needs to be in the PC for the software
>to work correctly. I have run this program in DOSEMU and it works however
>it cannot detect the security board on the bus. It anyone can steer me in
>the direction of what to look at it would be greatly apreciated. I have
>looked the dosemu.conf, but, I'm not sure of what to alter in this file.
If you know which I/O addresses are used by this board, you might get it
to work with an appropriate ports { .... } entry in your dosemu.conf.
The dosemu-HOWTO recommends using "dos -D+T 2> /tmp/io.debug" to find out
which port addresses your program tries to access.
Martin
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From: patrick goruick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:45:08 -0800
Subject: xdos color problems
i have a couple programs that i setup dosemu for - a qbasic program and
ms-works (v2.0?). they both work fine in 'dos' (console mode). when i run
them in xdos, the qbasic program's colors come out alright, but the colors
in works have turned to flourescent green, blue, etc. - ouch....
it seems obvious (to me anyway) that dosemu is setup correctly since
everything works in console mode....is there something wrong with my x
setup, or is this a bug or some (as yet) unsupported feature of dosemu...?
any help is greatly appreciated - my eyes will thank you as well....
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From: Jason Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:44:52 -0500
Subject: Suggestion for improveing hogthreshold
Problem: I'm running desqview under linux on a laptop. No matter what
my hogthreshold setting is and how much I nice the dosemu job itself,
the dos app. desqview takes away all idle cpu. Since I use a laptop,
this means that my fan turns on and my battery runs down about twice
as fast when I have the dos job sitting in a background window.
Ideally, there should be a way to halt the dosemu job when it's not in
foreground. Windows already has this feature built in.
Proposed solution: Make 4 entries on the hogthreshold line in the
dosemu.conf file.
Old format:
$_hogthreshold = (200) # 0 == all CPU power to DOSEMU
Proposed format:
$_hogthreshold_fg = (10) #0=all CPU power to foreground DOSEMU,100=no power
$_hogthreshold_bg = (100) #0=all CPU power to background DOSEMU,100=no power
$_hogthreshold_fg_nice = (0) #niceness of DOSEMU job when running in foreground
$_hogthreshold_bg_nice = (20) #niceness of DOSEMU job when running in b.ground
There would be 4 numbers governing cpu usage of dosemu. Two for cpu
usage based on keyboard idle interrupt polls (foreground & background
job states) and two for the niceness that this job should run at when
in these two states (useful for programs like desqview). Note also
that I am suggesting is a _linear_ scale that has a value which
implies zero cpu usage, which is currently incompatible with the
hogthreshold even for well-behaved dos programs.
Scott, Andi, are you willing to implement this? Any other volunteers?
Do you think this is a worthwhile idea?
Jason Taylor
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From: Dennis Reichel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:39:14 -0500
Subject: dosemu keyboard handling difficulties with Foxpro 2.5
Hello,
Using either dosemu 0.99.6 or 0.98.5 and FoxPro 2.5, I have trouble
getting actions to be triggered by "ON KEY LABEL Alt-M do UDF" and
Ctrl-W is not causing exit of foxpro built in text editor. Can someone
shed some light on these problems?
Thanks, Dennis Reichel
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From: baha karahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:09:50 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Dosemu vs.matroxfb
Dosemu vs.matroxfb:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I do not know where to post this one. I will send it to dosemu.org
aswell.
I ran dosemu 0.98.4.0 while I was using the matroxfb compiled into my
kernel. I "booted" to dos 7.10 via the emu, no flaming please, and switch
to a different vt. Most of the vt were black. The vt with dosemu was
full of funky colors - it looked like it was trying to use some odd
refresh rate of something.
Sorry guys.
- Baha
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: 26 Jan 1999 00:29:25 -0600
Subject: Re: Another (same) keyboard problem
>>>>> "MM" == Mario Moreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Mario,
>>
>> I'm actively chasing a similar solution.
>>
>> I'm getting some pretty interesting results by using a VNC X
>> Server as the
>> display for an xdos session, and then viewing it on the win95
>> machines with
>> the VNC windows client. This works brilliantly, except for
MM> [...]
>> I have not yet tested this method over a slower link.
MM> I think it wont be very fast. In my case, I have only a 33.6 Kbps modem
MM> connecting the two machines.
MM> I was thinking of using a nice console telnet for win (95/NT) that I've
MM> found, so the win95 machine doesn't event need to see the windows (telnet in
MM> fullscreen mode). This would be the perfect solution to me. Most strange, is
MM> that the msdos edit program works ok (using TERM=linux). The Alt+F for
MM> opening the File menu and so on. It's just the keypad that isn't working.
>> I recently mentioned in this list that I am putting together whatever
>> resources I can find regarding the building of a multi-user
>> DOS terminal
>> server system which is network aware. If you don't mind, I'd
>> like to add
>> you to my list of people with similar interests. I guess I
>> am trying to put
>> together the beginnings of a Special Interests Group for this topic.
MM> :)
MM> I've read the archives of this list for similar questions, and didn't find
MM> any answer to my problem, and it seems lot's of people are having similar
MM> problems.
>> One idea that came to me while playing with Dosemu and VNC was the
>> possibility of grafting a raw VNC server into Dosemu. I
MM> The use of a thin Xserver (any suggestion?) on the Windows machine, and
MM> starting xdos with the DISPLAY could do, but will it work over a 33.6K link?
Likely if you have a decent Xserver for windows. (Do they exist?)
MM> I don't really know the internals of dosemu, but why it works with xdos,
MM> even in a remote machine, and it doesn't work with telnet? Can somebody
MM> explain that to me?
Mostly that terminals don't have good key events, while X does.
There are some special keybaord combinations that should let you type
everthing from telnet. Try [Ctrl-^]h to get the listing.
If you can rebind your keys binding the non working ones to some of the combinations
should help as well (assuming that won't cause havoc with other programs).
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: 26 Jan 1999 00:08:01 -0600
Subject: Re: difficulties with keyboard handler and foxpro 2.5
>>>>> "DR" == Dennis Reichel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DR> Hi, I have tried dosemu .98.5 and .99.6 on a x86 2.0.35 linux box.
DR> It is working very nicely for my text based applications - except
DR> in some cases the keyboard handling seems to be improper.
Interesting. Off the top of my head I very puzzled.
I heavily tested keyboard code in the 0.97 development period, and as
far as I can tell it worked exactly like the real hardware, and bios.
There is some minor hardware discrepencies but that would lock your
keyboard not refuse to function.
There is also one software discrepency but that is only used if
an application changes the scancodes before they are
put into the keyboard buffer (the translate won't change, in dosemu
as it would normal dos). Again this doesn't sound like what you are
describing.
DR> A MS Foxpro 2.5 application has defined thus:
DR> on key label Alt-M <some action>
DR> The Alt-M is not intercepted and the action is not dispatched.
DR> Also:
DR> In the built-in text editor,
Built in to foxpro?
DR> keystrokes such as Ctr-F <find> and
DR> Ctrl-W, exit-save - are not handled properly. Ctr-M does insert a <cr>
DR> but other Ctrl keys which should be active hot keys only will cause
DR> the insertion of a literal character.
DR> Are there any solutions available for this problem?
I have never heard of it before.
DR> n.b. For this application to work properly in a DOS environment via
DR> PcAnywhere (a remote control application) the special keyboard handler
DR> level 2 must be selected.
If you had a description of what that does perhaps I could get
somewhere. I am mystified.
DR> Also, can someone tell me if there are any archives of this mailing list
DR> which I may access?
I can't tell you but I have heard there are.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: 26 Jan 1999 00:15:12 -0600
Subject: Re: DOSEMU control+F10
>>>>> "JH" == Jeffrey Hummel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JH> Hello,
JH> I recently installed dosemu 0.98 on a basic slakware system and cannot get
JH> it to do CTRL+Function keys. I have gotten a foxpro program to run and this
JH> is our main reason for using dosemu. Please e-mail any suggestions you may
JH> have. Any help is much appreciated.
What environment are you running dosemu under?
xdos should certainly work.
under a terminal it might work.
Using raw scancodes on the console should work.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: 26 Jan 1999 00:21:04 -0600
Subject: Re: dosemu keyboard handling difficulties with Foxpro 2.5
>>>>> "DR" == Dennis Reichel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DR> Hello,
DR> Using either dosemu 0.99.6 or 0.98.5 and FoxPro 2.5, I have trouble
DR> getting actions to be triggered by "ON KEY LABEL Alt-M do UDF" and
DR> Ctrl-W is not causing exit of foxpro built in text editor. Can someone
DR> shed some light on these problems?
Sorry for taking so long, most of my hacking energy is going into
the kernel just lately. I have replied to your earlier message a few
seconds ago. One last question, though. What environment are you running
dosemu under. If it is terminal mode, it just might cause this problem.
If you could confirm this doesn't happens in xdos that would be a help.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: 26 Jan 1999 00:33:00 -0600
Subject: Re: Can I print in dos program using dosemu?
>>>>> "SK" == Sokhwi Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SK> I have windows-only GDI printer.
SK> But it offer dos driver for wordprocessor and Autocad.
SK> To use dosemu can I print in that program?
Likely. If you have a setup for linux you can probably piggy back of that,
and tell you programs you have a postscript printer or whatever.
Other wise you can either configure your printer queues in passthrough mode,
where they just feed the file sent them to your printer.
Or setup up dosemu with direct parrellel port access (tricky).
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: 26 Jan 1999 00:11:01 -0600
Subject: Re: mouse problems
>>>>> "r" == reuven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
r> Hi,
r> I noticed that some dos software get stuck
r> when I move the mouse pointer out from the xdos
r> window. When I bring the pointer again to the
r> xdos window, if I have luck, it starts reacting
r> again and if not, it may start reacting even
r> after 10 minutes.
r> If I try the same thing not in X, i.e. with
r> dos under tcsh, there is no problem.
r> I have 2 questions:
r> 1. I got the feeling that disabling the mouse
r> under xdos, will solve the problem for this
r> software. How can I disable it ? I use
It's never been reported as problem before,
so I don't believe we have a disable option.
r> $_com1 = ""
r> $_mouse = ""
r> $_mouse_dev = ""
r> and it is still detected.
r> 2. What setup can be changed to make this
r> problem disapear?
Good question. Any description of the software you are running.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: 25 Jan 1999 23:53:54 -0600
Subject: Re: AALib and full graphics support for terminals!!!
>>>>> "DW" == Darrin Wortlehock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DW> Has anybody looked at the AALib (Ascii Art) graphics library?
DW> I have only just started to become acquainted with the source for DOSEMU,
DW> but from what I've seen of how we currently handle graphics mode for the
DW> console, I think that this crazy idea might just work.
DW> If we could modify the existing video code to use AALib instead of VGALib,
DW> we would have approximated full video mode for terminals and telnet
DW> sessions. There is even a drop-in replacement version of VGALib available.
It's a good thought perhaps someday. We don't even have complete video emulation
yet in X but we are close.
But we don't use VGALib, as it doesn't work with real setuid programs.
Basically we have a passthrough library that just sets video modes.
DW> I can see it now ..... Doom for VT-100!!!! ;-)
Well this already done, on the linux side.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: 26 Jan 1999 00:39:07 -0600
Subject: Re: Compiling Dosemu-0.98.4.tgz
>>>>> "AT" == Alan Tam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AT> Hi Hans & Sebastian,
AT> Thanks for your information.
AT> My Linux is Debian 2.0.34 Hamm version. It comes with Dosemu-0.66.7.
AT> I couldn't get dosemu to work. It starts well when I type dos -C or dos.
AT> C is that small drive for all the commands come from dosemu and D is the file
AT> system in Linux which include the real C drive when running under Win95. When
AT> I change directory to C:\win95\command and type edit, the Ms Editor starts but
AT> all
AT> the functions in the pull down menu are not functioning and I can't close the
AT> editor window either.
edit is likely a compiled qbasic those are known not to work under 0.66.7
Under 0.98.x it should work fine.
AT> Is there any thing to do with my boot manager ?
If you have made it to the dos prompt (in dosemu) it's not an issue.
AT> I am running System commander as the boot manager in the first drive (C:
AT> and the whole drive contents Ms stuff) and Linux in the second dirve.
AT> Therefore I think a compilation of the dosemu might suit my needs
A newer version certianly.
Eric
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